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Popular Quotes About Addiction

addictionHaving addictions in not a good position to be in. But, we all have them, in one form or another. Some of them are less harmful, the more serious can be devastating. It takes a lot of strength and determination to live a life free of addiction. True freedom is being yourself, independent of any external factor. I hope you are free from addictions of any type. But if you are struggling with them, I also hope some of these famous quotes about addiction will motivate you to do something about them.

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

Bell Hooks


Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.

Carl Jung


I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction.

Gene Tierney


Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it’s giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you’d be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you’ve taken.

Hoda Kotb


Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Robert Trout


‘Higher Power’ was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It’s a very, very tough thing – very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Tom Scholz


In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

Ann Voskamp


The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

John Muir


We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely… change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.

George A. Sheehan


Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.

Pir Vilayat Khan


I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It’s biological.

Janine di Giovanni


All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Jon Kabat-Zinn


We are taught to consume. And that’s what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it’s just a mind set, that it’s just an addiction, then we wouldn’t be out there stepping on people’s hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

River Phoenix


Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don’t do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job – that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

Dale Archer


Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.

Robert Green Ingersoll


All behavioral or mood disorders – including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction – have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them.

Jeffrey Kluger


I think I have an adrenaline addiction, no question about that.

Tom Waits


There’s a pattern when tours start – a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There’s a pattern of going to jail. There’s a pattern of passion for music.

Nikki Sixx


It is not the world but attachment to it which is the root of all misery.

Swami Nityaswarupananda


Addiction isn’t about substance – you aren’t addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Susan Cheever


No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Patrick J. Kennedy


The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Walker Percy


Negative freedom is freedom from – freedom from oppression, whether it’s a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that’s what’s routinely ignored today.

Os Guinness


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Famous Quotes About UFOs

Here are some selected quotes about UFOs from celebrities and famous authors.

I don’t mind UFO’s and ghost stories, it’s just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Robert Stack


In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

Robert Stack


I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.

Nina Hagen


I have had UFO experiences, and yet, at the same time, I can easily be convinced that none of it is true. It’s hard to say whether or not you’re a believer. I’ve been interested in that subject matter, like lots of people. Perhaps foolishly, I’ve allowed some of that stuff to creep into my music.

Frank Black


I examined a lot of CIA declassified UFO files, which are fascinating, because there was a huge UFO craze going on in America. There still is today, but it certainly started in ’47. And by the ’50s, it was in full force.

Annie Jacobsen


It’s a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.

Dwight Schultz


‘UFO’s’ attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It’s not an advocacy; its philosophy is more ‘I want to believe this, but I want it proved.’

Dwight Schultz


I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

Edgar Mitchell


Once while vacationing at my grandparent’s house in Rajasthan, we were sleeping on the roof and I spotted an object hovering around in the sky – kind of a UFO. It totally spooked me out. I couldn’t sleep for days after that.

Nimrat Kaur


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Famous Quotes About Health

healthHere are some great quotes about health from famous authors.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Henry David Thoreau


Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

Norman Cousins


A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Hippocrates


Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Buddha


Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

Benjamin Franklin


It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Mahatma Gandhi


Health is not a condition of matter, but of Mind.

Mary Baker Eddy


It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

Epictetus


The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.

Thomas Dekker


When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Billy Graham


A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It’s important at all ages.

Jerry Hall


Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Og Mandino


To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Buddha


You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

Rumi


A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

Rowan Williams


Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

Anne Wilson Schaef


I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Joyce Meyer


He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Thomas Carlyle


Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.

Ralph Marston


Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Joseph Addison


The first wealth is health.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Joyce Meyer


A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

Ellen G. White


My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones.

Epictetus


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